Exam question 3 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30:…

Which term denotes the condition that causes Uncle Remus's sullen resignation in the final sketch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, condition, Uncle Remus · What happens: denote, cause, resign · To what, where: condition, sullen resignation, final sketch

This is exam question 3 of lesson 594 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, part 30: a proud coast servant brags, Remus teases back, then a toothache sends him grumbling to the office» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 causes	nsubj
7	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	acl:relcl
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Remus	compound
9	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 resignation	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Remus	case
11	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 resignation	amod
12	resignation	resignation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 sketch	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sketch	det
15	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sketch	amod
16	sketch	sketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 causes	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	denote	present	which term	the condition		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot condition=Topic
2	cause	present	the condition	Uncle Remus's sullen resignation	the final sketch	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition resignation=Patient
3	resign		Uncle Remus			nom resignation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Headache

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Earache

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earache	earache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Toothache

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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